Deduction Prodigy An Qingyu

An Qingyu continued answering as though it were perfectly obvious. "It was easy. I can more or less remember what every student at school looks like, but two new faces suddenly appeared today. The flag bearers at the flag-raising ceremony were different from the ones originally scheduled, and the principal inexplicably gathered everyone in the auditorium. All of that indicated that something abnormal or urgent was happening at school."

"That's basic deduction. As for the cause of the abnormality, it was either connected to the newcomers, or they had come to deal with it. I couldn't tell which, but I leaned toward the latter, so I kept watching what you were doing outside the auditorium, until I saw Li Yifei handing earplugs to these two girls."

"I didn't have earplugs, so I tore off a few scraps of cloth and took some cotton from my clothes to make a makeshift pair. It looks like they worked pretty well."

"When you were killing those monsters just now, I pretended to collapse like the other students so I wouldn't get caught up in it. I only got up after most of the monsters had been killed, to take a look at the ones nearby."

As he spoke, he wiped some monster blood off his face and licked it, giving the people around him goosebumps.

"I saw the monsters burst out of their original forms. They're fundamentally different from humans, so I deduced that even if I stood up during that awful singing, you wouldn't mistake me for a monster and accidentally kill me."

"Now you're done asking questions, so it's my turn. Who are you? How did you know there were monsters here?" An Qingyu asked.

But no one answered him. His deductions had left the four people around him so stunned they didn't know what to do.

Was he really human? He had known to put in earplugs from just those few clues? And what was with his particular interest in and curiosity about the monsters? A normal student would be lucky not to faint from fright at the sight of one! Yet he had gotten up to examine such disgusting monster corpses? He had even tried licking a monster's blood?

Even Zhou Meng, who was observing the situation outside through Lin Qiye's eyes, felt he needed to reassess An Qingyu.

Zhou Meng had originally thought Lin Qiye's operation this time was completely different from the previous one. Although he had gathered everyone together, he hadn't alerted the enemy. He had resolved the matter before the monsters received orders to go on a killing spree at the school, so very few relevant clues had been revealed.

Yet An Qingyu's observations had been so meticulous that he had deduced something abnormal was happening at the school from just a few simple clues. He was a Deduction Prodigy!

As expected of Yog-Sothoth's incarnation. Even with his divine status suppressed, the thirst for knowledge in his soul could never be hidden.

At the same time, Zhou Meng also examined An Qingyu's entries through Lin Qiye's eyes.

His entries were crimson-gold, as dazzling as Lin Qiye's.

The brightest were [Key of the Door] and [Door of Truth] above his head.

There were also some other entries behind them: [Thirst for Knowledge], [Deduction Prodigy], [Exceptional Intelligence], [Monster Dissection Expert], and so on.

However, some of the abilities and entries he would possess later were not yet visible.

To steal something, there had to be something to steal. Clearly, stealing on credit wouldn't work.

At the same time, Zhou Meng was still very interested in some of the abilities and entries An Qingyu would gain later, such as [Clone], [Mental Pollution], [Regeneration], and so on.

While Zhou Meng was considering whether to steal an entry to play with now, Lin Qiye and the others had finished explaining to An Qingyu exactly what they did.

Now that An Qingyu had seen the Nightwatchers killing monsters, there was no point in keeping it from him. Besides, they would rely on a forbidden item to erase their memories afterward, so telling him wasn't a big problem.

Otherwise, even if they said nothing, he would probably deduce it himself. After what had just happened, Lin Qiye, Hongying, and the others had no doubt about that.

"Oh? So you come from an organization called the Nightwatchers, and this monster is a Mythical Creature that descended here, called a Nanda Snake Demon? In that case, shouldn't it have a main body that can give birth to snake spawns?"

After hearing Lin Qiye and the others' explanation, An Qingyu seemed to quickly accept the situation and raised a key question: where had the snake demon's main body gone?

Li Yifei looked around and, with a keen eye, spotted a corpse near the edge of the room that was different from the other monsters. Its head was not a mass of flesh and teeth, but an actual snake's head.

It was just that it couldn't have been more dead now.

"Look, over there! That one's different!" he said in delight as he ran toward it.

"Oh! Sure enough, that looks like the main body! Looks like we're done here! Let's sweep through the other buildings. As long as none slipped through the net, we can call it a day!" Hongying stretched, ready to tell the captain and the other team members they could come finish up.

"But Qiye, what on earth is going on with your voice? I was going to suggest to the captain that we all go to karaoke to celebrate, but seeing how you are now, I think we'd better forget it. We don't want to end up in the hospital with damaged eardrums!" Hongying complained.

Only now did she understand Lin Qiye's plan: have the principal gather everyone in an enclosed building, then use his singing to knock out the ordinary people and immobilize all the snake spawns. That left the few of them with earplugs free to start "harvesting."

"Honestly, the moment Qiye picked up the mic, I guessed you were going to sing. But I thought you'd sing a beautiful lullaby. I didn't expect you to use physical hypnosis!" Si Xiaonan said faintly as she checked on the unconscious teachers and students on the floor.

"Luckily, these teachers and students passed out right away. If they'd heard you sing any longer, hearing damage would have been the least of it! They'd definitely have been traumatized, or even suffered brain nerve damage!"

"Then their lives would have been saved, but they'd have been left stupid."

"Ahaha, there was no time to be picky. I didn't think that far ahead." Feeling that the matter had come to an end for the time being, Lin Qiye relaxed a little and scratched his head awkwardly.

Brother Meng, can you give me some more reliable entries from now on? It's not that this entry was unreliable, but why was its way of solving the problem so ridiculous?

But Lin Qiye also felt that something wasn't quite right, though he couldn't say what it was.

Still, the snake demon's corpse was indeed lying on the floor. There was no question about that.

An Qingyu, meanwhile, was still staring thoughtfully at the corpse on the floor.

"Qiye, that scared me to death just now. Good thing you came up with that rotten idea—oh, no, that clever idea—and caught all those monsters in one go! Now that it's over, what about me joining the Nightwatchers?" Li Yifei ran up to Lin Qiye and asked expectantly.

"There shouldn't be a problem. Come straight back with us in a bit. The captain should agree." Lin Qiye nodded.

Just then, Zhou Meng's voice suddenly sounded in his mind.

"Are you not going to use your head anymore? Do you really think the snake demon's main body is lying on the floor?" Zhou Meng asked teasingly.

"You mean the snake demon's main body isn't in this room? It's still outside? That's fine too. Boundless Airspace is still deployed. Once the captain and the others arrive, we can turn the school upside down and we'll definitely find him," Lin Qiye replied with a frown.

Just as I thought. I knew that beast wouldn't be so brainless.

"Oh, honestly. If you're looking for the snake demon's main body, look to your right."

At Zhou Meng's words, every hair on Lin Qiye's body stood on end.

To his right was Li Yifei, laughing and chatting with Si Xiaonan.